Not to be confused with Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), Communist Party of Britain, or New Communist Party of Britain.
Communist Party of Great Britain Plaid Gomiwnyddol Prydain Fawr | |
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| Abbreviation | CPGB |
| General Secretary | Albert Inkpin (first) Nina Temple (last) |
| Founded | 31 July 1920 |
| Dissolved | 23 November 1991 |
| Membership (1945) | 60,000 |
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a communist party in the United Kingdom from 1920 to 1991.
History
The Communist Party of Great Britain was founded in 1920 and participated in a general strike in 1926. It organized a mass movement against the British Union of Fascists and sent over a thousand volunteers to fight in the Spanish Civil War.[1] In 1945, it won two seats in the House of Commons.[2]
After the Second World War, the CPGB campaigned against British membership in NATO. It organized miners' strikes in the 1970s and '80s. In 1988, a group of communists who had been expelled by the revisionist party leadership founded the Communist Party of Britain.[1] Former members would also found and join the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist).[3][4] The CPGB was dissolved in 1991.
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The communist party". Communist Party of Britain. Archived from the original on 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ↑ "1945 General election results summary". UK Political Info. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
- ↑ "Jack Shapiro lives forever in our hearts!" (2009-12-01). Proletarian.
- ↑ "Remembering departed comrades" (2008-12-01). Proletarian.